{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2014-12-05","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-04-18","city":"PRINCETON","country_code":"US","county_code":"055","cruise_speed_mph":103,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41574","engine_horsepower":1100,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"T53-L-11D","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181410","mode_s_code":"53324510","mode_s_hex":"ADA948","model":"UH-1B","n_number":"N98F","name":"PRESCOTT GORDON F","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Amherstdale","damage":"DEST","date":"2022-06-22","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ERA22FA279","probable_cause":"the operator\u2019s failure to adequately inspect the former military turbine powered helicopter, which allowed an engine issue to progress and result in a loss of engine power and a subsequent loss of control after the helicopter struck powerlines during a forced landing. Also causal to the accident were the following:  1) the Federal Aviation Administration\u2019s (FAA) inadequate inspection and maintenance standards for former military turbine powered aircraft operating with an experimental exhibition airworthiness certificate; 2) the operator\u2019s use of those standards instead of more rigorous standards, which were readily available to the operator and previously used to inspect and maintain the helicopter; and 3) the FAA\u2019s inadequate oversight of the operator, which did not detect the inherent risk associated with the operation.","registration":"N98F","state":"WV","summary":"Accident on June 22, 2022 at Amherstdale, WV: fatal, destroyed (6 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N98F is a Bell UH-1B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1962. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Princeton, West Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 18, 2017 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated December 5, 2014.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Prescott Gordon F, an individual, certificate issued April 18, 2017, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 5, 2014, 52 years after the 1962 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 62-1968 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N98F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech M35 (serial D-6514, cancelled May 18, 1965). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N98F: Accident on June 22, 2022 at Amherstdale, WV: fatal, destroyed (6 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":6,"serial_number":"62-1968","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WV","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"614 RAINBOW RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00773790","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N98F","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1962,"zip":"247397886"}